CIOs Get No Respect From the C-Suite

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Uncommon GroundOnly 5% of CIOs say that they and their company's top management team agree about the role of the CIO.

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Out of the Loop57% of CIOs say they're never involved in business strategy.

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Top Reasons Why CIOs Aren't Involved with Business Strategy:• Skills considered to be too lacking to be involved (as cited by 51% of survey respondents)• Not considered member of senior leadership team (47%)• Poor relationship with CEO (40%)

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Irrelevance4 of 10 CIOs feel that IT is not perceived as central to the direction of business.

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Underutilized Assets41% of CIOs say their companies aren't using IT to grow the business to the extent that it should.

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Why Companies Aren't Using IT to Grow:The management team… • Doesn't understand value that IT brings (44%)• Doesn't understand potential for IT to grow business (32%)• Sees IT as a cost of doing business (24%)

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Tutorial Needed53% of CIOs feel they're facing greater pressures from management to explain and adopt new and emerging technologies.

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Learning CurveOnly 16% of CIOs say their management team fully understands new and emerging technologies.

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Literacy Lacking56% of CIOs say a lack of tech literacy among management leads to a lack of organizational responsiveness.

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Outside Advice27% of CIOs say the management team solely relies on vendors, consultants, and others for information about emerging technology, instead of the CIO.